6/22/2023 0 Comments Desdemona othello![]() ![]() He appoints a student of military knowledge, Cassio, to be his lieutenant. He is dazzled by the comfortable life, the learned conversation, the civilization. Senator Brabantio has invited him to his home, and this is a revelation to the soldier. When the colony of Cyprus is threatened by the enemy, the Duke and Senate turn to "valiant" Othello to lead the defense.Īfter many years on campaign, Othello has come to live in Venice, among the sophisticated people of the city. Under pressure, he makes an inspiring speech. He has courage, intelligence, the skill of command, and the respect of his troops. He is a general in the Venetian defense forces, and, although a foreigner from Africa, he has won this post by excellence in the field of war. ![]() Faced with the shame of having murdered an innocent Desdemona, Othello stabs himself in front of Cassio and dies on Desdemona's bed, beside her.Othello is a combination of greatness and weakness, in his own words "an honourable murderer" (V.2, 295). When Iago cannot keep Emilia from telling the truth about the handkerchief, he stabs her and attempts to escape not only is he captured, but letters found on Roderigo's body thoroughly implicate Iago as the treacherous villain that he is. However, Iago's appearance and subsequent answers lead Emilia to confront the fact that her husband is responsible for this tragedy. When Emilia discovers the crime, she decries the Moor as a villain and at first refuses to believe that Iago has so evilly manipulated Othello. Iago, meanwhile, has Roderigo attempt to murder Cassio when Roderigo fails to do more than wound the soldier, Iago slays him so that Roderigo can't implicate him in the affair. In spite of Desdemona's protests of innocence (backed up by Iago's wife, Emilia), Othello is now convinced of her infidelity with Cassio. His smoldering rage now beginning to bubble over, Othello tells Iago to kill Cassio and then angrily confronts Desdemona. Iago manipulates a conversation with Cassio about his courtesan to make it appear to Othellowho is eavesdropping at the behest of Iagothat Cassio is talking about Desdemona. Cassio, meanwhile, has given the handkerchief to a courtesan with whom he is intimate. When Othello asks Desdemona about the handkerchief, she tells him that it was lost (which is the truth as she knows it). Later, fortune literally drops Desdemona's handkerchief into Iago's hand he gets the handkerchief from Emilia, who discovered it, plants the handkerchief in Cassio's room, and then tells Othello that he saw Cassio with it. The scenario Iago suggests is that Cassio and Desdemona are having an affair. As Iago and Othello view the scene, Iago plants seeds of doubt and jealousy in Othello's mind concerning Desdemona's fidelity. This accomplished, Iago goes straightaway to Othello so that he can lead him to where Desdemona and Cassio are talking. Then Iago has Cassio visit Desdemona, saying that an appeal to her might do well to convince Othello to reinstate him. He tricks Cassio into getting drunk, then has Roderigoa former suitor of Desdemona whom Iago has convinced to aid him with the hope of winning Desdemona backpick a fight with Cassio that ends in Cassio's arrest. When they've arrived in Cyprus, Iago sets his machinations to motion. When Othello is posted to Cyprus by the Duke of Venice, Iago escorts Desdemona there to meet him, taking along his own wife, Emilia. Othello has secretly married Desdemona, the beautiful daughter of Venetian senator Brabantio, and Iago determines to use Desdemona as the means of his revenge. Othello, a Moorish general of Venice, has promoted Cassio as his lieutenant Iago, who was hoping for the promotion himself, makes plots against both Cassio and Othello to exact revenge.
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